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LARKSBURG TELEGRAPH
Latest News of the World in General and of the Great Central West Virginia Territory in Particular
CLARKSBURG, W. VA., SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1931

STATE AIR MEET
State's First Air Meet Opens at Jackson's Mill;
30,000 Persons Attend State's First Aerial Exhibition.

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GIRL PILOT WILL ARRIVE THIS EVENING
Seven Aviators Land in Own Planes for Stunt Program
By LEO DOTSON

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[[underlined]] Manila Davis [[/underlined]]

Jackson's Mill, Aug. 22. - Seven aviators arrived here in airplanes this afternoon for the opening of the first West Virginia air meet at Arnold field, under the auspices of the state Four-H camp.  Five others are expected late this afternoon or this evening.

In addition, Miss Manila Davis, formerly of Flatwoods, now of New York city, the first West Virginia girl ever to be granted a flying license, will arrive this evening, as will a department of commerce plane from Washington.

About 600 persons gathered on the field this this morning and many more were arriving this afternoon.

ACROBATIC FLYING
The features of the program will be presented tomorrow when many thousands of persons are expected from all parts of West Virginia.  Air events will include acrobatic flying, parachute jumping and dead stick landings. "Chillie" Thomas, parachute jumper, Morgantown, arrived at the field this afternoon.
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JACKSON'S MILL, Aug. 22.–Flying in formation over Jackson's Mill and Weston at noon today, five ships officially opened the first All-State Aviation meet which is being sponsored here today and tomorrow by the Central West Virginia Aviation Association.

Before dark this evening twelve planes from various parts of the state, and one from Washington, D.C., had arrived at the Weston airport and were participating in the preliminaries of the aviation meet. Miss [[underlined]] Manila Davis [[/underlined]], formerly of Flatwoods, and now of the Roosevelt Field in New York city, is expected to fly a Westbrook sportster here early tomorrow morning.

Miss Davis is the state's first licensed aviatrix, and has been active as a member of the Betsy Ross Air Corps, which was organized this year at Washington, D.C. to further aviation for women as an auxiliary unit in time of war or need. She will represent this organization here as a director of the board of governors.
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